How many hills do there have to be for a course not to be flat? Veterans of the Henley course either love or hate the hill just over half way round. Perhaps because it's so long you forget you're going uphill!!

Runs out on the fens are described as flat - they have only a couple of bridges over dykes/roads as 'hills'.Blackpool marathon was described as flat, but there was a definite hill in the last 5 miles from the lower promenade to the upper promenade, although it onlly lasted about 100m, at that time it felt like a mountain.

Having run Fawley Hill for the last two weekends I can tell you it is quite hard! It is about 0.8 of a mile but seems like 1.5 miles. The rest of the course is flat-the trouble is the hill is after 8 miles. It could kill off a good time!

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